Karol Samsel, PhD (born in 1986), is a historian of literature, a poet, and an adjunct professor at the Institute of Polish Literature at the University of Warsaw. Samsel coedited the following volumes of essays dedicated to Norwid, Fredro, and the student-poets of the underground University of Warsaw: Hieroglifem zapisane. Cyprian Norwid [Written by Hieroglyph. Cyprian Norwid] (Warszawa 2012), Uniwersalność komizmu. Aleksander Fredro w dwieście dwudziestą rocznicę urodzin [The Universality of Comedy. Aleksander Fredro in Two Hundredth Anniversary of His Death] (Warszawa 2015). Poeci-studenci podziemnego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego wobec romantyzmu [Poet-students of the Underground Warsaw University and Romanticism] (Warszawa 2018). He has also published articles in Philological Works [Prace Filologiczne], Norwid Studies [Studia Norwidiana], and Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland). He is a member of the Polish Joseph Conrad Society and a researcher of Wanda Karczewska’s life and works and has published the following books: Norwid – Conrad. Epika w perspektywie modernizmu [Norwid-Conrad. The Epic in the Modernist Perspective] (Warszawa 2015) and Inwalida intencji. Studia o Norwidzie [Invalid of Intentions. Studies on Norwid] (Warszawa 2018).